Combined index and register



(No Model.)

J. H. CARPENTER.

COMBINED INDEX AND REGISTER.

No. 449,105, Patented Mar. 31,1891.

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JAMES HARVEY CARPENTER, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

COMBINED INDEX AND REGISTER.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 449,105, dated March 31, 1891. Application filed December 16, 1889. Serial No. 333,883. (No specimens.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JAMES HARVEY CAR- PENTER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in a Combined Index and Register, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a combined index and register of names of persons, firms, or corporations arranged and grouped by States and towns. The index has columns, each of which is headed by the name'of a town, with other and intersecting columns headed by Page and Div, respectively, the several intersecting columns being adapted to have a figure, mark, or letter placed therein at the point of intersection, and the figure, mark, or letter atsuch point of intersecting columns designating the page and the division on such page where the name of any person, firm, or corporation resident or doing business in such town will be found in that part of the combined index and register constituting a register of names. Such register of names may be contained within the same binding as the index or in a separate book or books. The index has also other columns intersecting the columns headed, respectively, by the name of a town, the figures, marks, or

letters inserted at the point of intersection of the last-named columns designating and giving such and any information it is deemed necessary or desirable to give in the index additional to that before named. In use the register of names has columns, each of which is headed by a surname properly initialed, such surnames being also grouped in divisions, and other columns intersecting the names-columns, the figures, marks, or letters placed at the point of intersection of the several columns designating information controlled by the combined heading of such intersecting columns and by such figure, mark, and letter.

I am aware that a combined index and register of the character last hereinbefore described has been heretofore made, and one wherein the State within which the several towns heading the columns of towns are 10- cated has been indicated by appropriate initials or abbreviations suitably tagged to the sides or edges of the leaves of the index, such an index having been combined with such a register and copyrighted by me in 1886, and hence I make no claim of patentable novelty for so much of my herein-described invention as is included in the above partial description thereof and adapted for the purposes named; but the object of this combined index and register is to provide not only an index whereby all the information contained in the register of names relating to a given town and to the persons, firms, or corporations resident or doing business therein may be quickly referred to and found, but also to provide an index of the character named adapted to be used with a register of the kind referred to, which index will give of itself certain and valuable information with reference to the number of inhabitants of the towns, and will of itself indicate and point out in the register of names to any user thereof all such towns with any of the residents, persons, firms, or corporations doing business therein with whom it is desirable for him to do business.

I have illustrated my invention by the drawings accompanying and forming a part of this specification, in which- 7 Figure 1 is an illustration of a portion of a page of my improved index. So much of a page of an index embodying my invention is illustrated in this figure as is necessary to fully exhibit the invention relating thereto. Fig. 2 is an-elevation illustrating a portion of a page of the register of names used in combination with the index.

In Fig. l'different kinds of type,- or type having different styles and kinds of faces, are used for printing the names of the several towns heading the horizontal columns on the page, and after several of the names of towns there are printed the figures 1, 2, 3, and 4, respectively.

The principal part of the invention sought to be claimed in this patent is embodied in the manner in which some names of towns are printed in type differing from that in which other names of towns are printed, in the figures placed after certain other names of towns, and the combination of the several columns headed by the names of towns printed,

as described, with the intersecting columns having the several headings, or other suitable ones, and the marks, figures, or letters placed at the point of intersection of the several columns; and the balance of my invention consists of the manner in which the foregoing is adapted to be used conjointly with the register of names, in the manner hereinafter described.

The purpose of the variation of the style of type employed is to designate approximately the population of the several towns, and the placing of the figures after certain of the names of such towns is to designate with still greater accuracy the population of the towns after the names of which such figures are placed.

Turning now to Fig. 1, the town of Advance being town number S, counting from the top, in the first perpendicular column of the names of towns, is printed in what may be termed ordinary type, with no number or figure placed after it. This manner and style of printing the name of any town with no figure following it designates less than one hundred inhabitants constituting the population of such town. Adams,the third, and Adrian, the seventh, town in the same column are each printed in the same'type as is the name of the town Advance, but there is placed after each of such towns the figure 1. In this index any town printed in this style of type, with the figure 1 placed thereafter, contains more than one hundred and less than two hundred inhabitants. Adair, the second, Addieville, the fourth, town in the same column, and other towns in this and the succeeding column which may be found by inspection of Fig. 1 of the drawings, are printed in like type as the before-named towns and there is placed after each of them the figure 2. This manner and style of printing the name of any town with such figure 2 placed after it indicates that there are more than two hundred and less than three hundred inhabitants in such town. In like In anner the figure 3 after the nameAdeline, the sixth town in the same column, and the figure a after the name Allendale, the seventh town from the bottom in the same column, designate that there are more than three hundred and less than four hundred inhabitants in the town of Adeline and more than four hundred and less than five hundred inhabitants in the town of Allendale. The population of each town having more than three and less than four hundred inhabitants is designated by the figure 3 placed after the name of the town, and the population of each town having more than tour hundred and less than five hundred inhabitants is designated by the figure 4E placed thereafter.

The population of the hereinbefore-named towns is designated as being less than five hundred by the style of type in which the names of such towns are printed, and by the figures placed after such towns the population is designated within one hundred persons. It is evident that whatever the population might be such population could he designated within one hundred persons by plac ing figures after the name of the town in this manner; but such a method would be too cumbersome for actual use in an index of the character herein described. To designate the population with figures approximating snlheiently to the exact number of inhabitants to meet the requirements of this index different styles or kinds of types may be employed without produeinga column of towns having such a varigated and confusing appearance as to seriously interfere with the readabil ty of such column, and such a manner of designating the population of the towns I will now describe.

The town of Albany in the same perpendicular column of names of towns is printed in the upper and lower case of a bold-faced type readily distinguishable from the type employed in the names of the towns last above cited, and such type, in the upper and lower case thereof, designates when used for the name of any town that there are more than five hundred and less than one thousand inhabitants in such town. The name of the town of Albion in the same column is printed in the same type as is the name of the town Albany, but in the upper case there of a difference in appearance being thus secured, and this way of printing the name of a town indicates there are more than one thousand and less than two thousand five hundred inhabitants in a given town. Aledo in the same column is printed in type having yet another and a marked difference in appearance from the type in which all preceding named towns are printed, and this kind of type indicates that there are more than two thousand five hundred and less than five thousand inhabitants in a town. Aurora in the sec- 0nd column of the names of towns is printed in yet another style of type and one having a heavy bold face conspicuously distinct from all the other hereinbefore-described styles of type. This style of type indicates that there are more than five thousand inhabitants in the town printed with such letters.

I have not deemed it necessary in the example here described to indicate in towns of more than five thousand inhabitants how many more there are in such town by the kind of type in which the name of the town is printed, although it is evident that this method of designating the number of inhabitants in a town can be amplified where required.

It is not necessary, it will be evident, that the several styles of type herein described and illustrated designatingapproximately the number of inhabitants of a town be adhered to, it being necessary merely that a dilference as marked as possible in the kind of type used be maintained, while a readable appearance to the column of towns is retained, themeaning of the difierences in styles of type being understood with satisfactory ease.

In the register, of which one page is represented by Fig. 2 of the drawings, I have divided the pages into sections, and the section in which any name contained in such register may be found as indicated in the index as well as the number of the page by the figures placed, as described, at the intersection, respectively of the columns headed Div. and Page with the column headed by thename of a given town.

The name of the town in which a person, firm, or corporation does business is placed in the register before the name of such person, firm, or corporation. In case it is desired to refer to a name in the register without reference to the town in which the owner of the name resides or does business an alphabetical index constructed like the index described and set forth in patent of the United States, No. 347,305, granted P. J. Schlicht on the 10th day of August, 1886, may well be used.

The manner in which my index is used in combination with the register of names is extremely simple and results in extreme quickness of reference, this being the ultimate purpose for which this kind of index is used. For example, a person having dealings with persons, firms, or corporations in towns of five hundred inhabitants and over, but having no dealings with any person,firm, or corporation doing business in towns of less than five hundredinhabitants,byinspection of the column of names of towns can tell at a glance by the style of type in which the name of each town is printed whether any given town contains five or more hundred inhabitants, and finding in such column a town of five or more hundred inhabitants by inspecting the figure or letter at the point of intersection of the column headed by such town with the series of intersecting columns he can see the page and division on such page where he will find in the register the name of such person, firm, or corporation. When in any given town of five or more hundred inhabitants he has no dealings with any person, firm, or corporation, that fact is designated in the index by the absence of any letters, marks, or figures at the point of intersection of the intersecting columns.

Where dealings are bad or desired with persons, firms, or corporations in a town of less than five hundred inhabitants, such towns are readily found by inspection of the names of towns. The figure following some of those towns containing less than-five hundred and more than one hundred inhabitants and the meaning designated where no figure is placed after the name of a town printed in this style of type enable the user to readily select thoseillustrated by the figure 6 in the upper left-hand corner thereof, there will be found in Div. 1 the name of the town Aurora.

and following it the name Carpenter, J. H., a supposed resident of the town of Aurora, and one with whom business is being done by the user of the combined index and register.

Having described my invention, What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is

1. An index-tablehavinga column of names of towns alphabetically arranged,the kind and style of letter in which the name of each town, as described, is printed designating approximately the population thereof, and each of such towns forming the heading of a series of columns, a series of intersecting columns, and marks at the point of intersection indicating the combined meaning designated by the heading of each of the columns intersecting and by the marks themselves, in combination with a register-of-names book paged to correspond with the index-table, substantially as described.

2. A column of names of towns alphabetically arranged, the kind aud style of letters in which the name of each town is printed designating approximately the inhabitants of such town, as described, with the names of towns of less than five hundred inhabitants printed in a uniform style of type, but with figures following the names of such towns of less than five hundred and more than one hundred inhabitants, such figures designating the number of hundredsof inhabitants in such town, and the name of each of such towns forming the heading of a series of columns, a series of intersecting columns, and marks at the point of intersection indicating the combined meaning designated by the ICC heading of each of the columns intersecting at the point where such marks are made and by the marks themselves, in combination with a register-of-names book paged to correspond with the index table, substantially as described.

J. HARVEY CARPENTER.

Vitnesses:

CHARLES 'l. BROWN, FLORA L. BROWN. 

